What makes a crime film epic? There is, of course, the American Film Institute's strict definition of a cinematic epic as " a large-scale film set in a cinematic interpretation of the past," but the quality of a crime movie being epic , rather than an epic, is different. When it's a story told on a grand scale with a sweeping scope and a huge sense of spectacle, it's quite likely an epic film. For a perfect example, one needn't look much further than the film many consider the greatest ever made: The Godfather .But while not many crime movies are as great as The Godfather , a few are every bit as epic—if not, perhaps, even more . From classics from around its era, like Scarface , to much more modern crime epics, like Gangs of Wasseypur , these are movies that s

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